In the Intensity Frontier of physics a search for new light particles,
including axions among others, is growing. Generally speaking axions can be
produced in an environment of intense photon production. The axion sources
considered so far are cosmological or in the sun.
Such environment on earth can be the core of a nuclear
reactor, see e.g. the recent works [1]}, [2]}.
It is, of course, well known that neutrinos were first detected in reactors
and the most accurate neutrino oscillation parameters were determined using reactor neutrinos.
It is amusing to think that history may repeat itself, i.e. reactors may have the potential
to produce axion like particles (ALPs) of sufficient intensity through
Primakoff conversion, Compton-like processes, nuclear transitions as well as dark photons. The (ALPs)
can subsequently interact with the material of a nearby detector via the standard processes,
i.e. the inverse Primakoff effect, the inverse Compton-like scatterings and via axio-electric absorption.
It is claimed [1]}, [2]}, that reactor-
based neutrino experiments have a high potential to test ALP-photon couplings
and masses.
